The Court of Appeal: Pirate domain to the state – New Technology

The domains thepiratebay.se and piratebay.se shall accrue to the state.

The Court of Appeal upheld the District Court and place the two domains linked to file-sharing site The Pirate Bay to State ownership. The case concerns thepiratebay.se and piratebay.se.

Anyone in the current situation goes on to the domain piratebay.se greeted by an error message, while the second domain is redirected to thepiratebay.org.

In a press release writing the court of Appeal: “like the district court judge court of Appeal that there is a basis for confiscation since domain names constituted instrumentalities of crimes under copyright law. Even according to the court of Appeal should confiscate done with the man who both the District court and court of Appeal judged that the réelle holder of the domain names. forfeiting means to the right of the domain names to the State “.

the Pirate Bay founder Peter Sunde reacts to judgment on Twitter, calling the rash of censorship. But he does not believe that the judgment will have major consequences: “The worst effect thepiratebay.se about being censored now is the people with the url on Their tattoos. Guess no other effect will happen”.